Sentence examples for rhetorical time from inspiring English sources

Early in his presidency, Obama spent considerable rhetorical time and energy making sure people knew the economic difficulties he had inherited from Bush.

But he has emerged as if in a rhetorical time capsule from a well-mannered era of soda fountains and AMC Ramblers, someone whose idea of swearing is to let loose with the phrase "H-E-double hockey sticks".

Instead of spending her time litigating just how wealthy she is, Clinton should acknowledge her wealth and then spend the vast majority of her rhetorical time making the case that through the policies she has advocated and pursued, she has never lost sight of the middle class.

Socrates too starts to speak at length, sounds rhetorical at times, and ends the discussion with a myth.

A colleague is now carrying a copy of Pyg by Russell Potter, "the memoirs of a learned pig", primed to do rhetorical damage next time David Cameron invades his personal space.

Such questions, in my opinion, should prove rhetorical in the time to come.

The document's shift in purpose, from one-time rhetorical set-piece to widely disseminated tract, is reminiscent of Ralph Waldo Emerson, to whose famous addresses secular sermons without exception every American essayist, for good or ill, owes one thing or another.

In ancient times, rhetorical argumentation was related to oratory, used in political debates or legal proceedings.

The rhetorical gestures were there, from time to time, and the bad metaphors: "A new tide of optimism," Trump said, is "sweeping across our land".

This time, despite rhetorical pressure at Holyrood for a rerun of the vote, the subject is largely off the artistic radar.

The warriors of "The Bearded Samurai," for instance, devote considerably more time to rhetorical self-justification than to swordplay; Japan had become momentarily estranged from its own recent past and had to find new ways to evoke once-automatic responses.